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The cutwork is further embellished with silver-gilt thread.\r\n\r\nUntil the end of the 17th century the coif was informal headwear for women.  Plain linen versions were worn by the working-class.  Middle-class and aristocratic women wore elaborately decorated coifs.  It would have been worn by itself indoors, or with a hat on top in public. In Western Europe it was customary for both men and women to cover their heads in public up until the 1960s. A hat was an essential part of respectable dress and, from a health perspective, head coverings were considered necessary to protect against chills and disease.","physicalDescription":"A linen coif with repeating pattern of roses and eglantine.  The outlines of the flowers and stems are worked with silver-gilt thread in chain stitch.  The centres of the flowers are decorated with drawn-thread and pulled fabric work with needlepoint fillings.  The outline of the coif is embroidered with silver-gilt thread in chain stitch.  There is a casing at the bottom and the coif has cheek-pieces and a widow's peak.  The front edges are embroidered with silver-gilt thread in plaited braid stitch.  The top seam and crown gathers have been unpicked at a later date.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"linen (material)","id":"AAT14069"},{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"}],"techniques":[{"text":"embroidering","id":"AAT53653"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Linen, linen thread, silver-gilt thread; hand-sewn and hand-embroidered","categories":[{"text":"Clothing","id":"THES48975"},{"text":"Fashion","id":"THES48957"},{"text":"Hats and headwear","id":"THES48943"},{"text":"Embroidery","id":"THES48960"},{"text":"Europeana Fashion Project","id":"THES265804"}],"styles":[{"text":"Elizabethan","id":"AAT21036"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&F","id":"THES48601"},"images":["2020MT5313","2020MT5314","2011ER8585","2011EY9783","2017KC3264"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"015","id":"THES310225"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Coif","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1590-1610","earliest":"1590-01-01","latest":"1610-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Width","value":"49.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"overall, approx.","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"22.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"overall, approx","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Woman's coif of linen, 1590-1610, British; embroidered with silver-gilt thread and cutwork","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Lea Nevinson, Catalogue of English Domestic Embroidery of the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries, Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Textiles, London: HMSO, 1938, p.84, plate LXII"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"roses","id":"AAT33321"},{"text":"eglantine","id":"x31643"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["T.98-1925"],"accessionNumberNum":"98","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":1925,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-07","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":true}}